IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10 1885 – July 18 1950) was a U. He earned a bachelor of arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1907 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1911 and continued to teach there until 1930.

S. critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10 1885 – July 18 1950) was a U.